NJ, ICE Pause Fight Over Planned Immigrant Detention Center

By Carla Baranauckas

The state of New Jersey and one of its municipalities on Tuesday temporarily paused their bid to block a planned immigration detention center after reaching an agreement with federal officials that halts most work at the site pending further environmental review.

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Celgene Gets Final OK For $239M Deal, Atty Fees

By Emilie Ruscoe

Investors in biopharmaceutical company Celgene Corp. have gotten a final nod for their $239 million deal to end proposed class claims that the company overstated commercial prospects for two of its drugs, and the investors' four-firm legal team will get fees and costs of nearly $57.3 million for their work on the case.

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NJ Court Not Sure Bristol-Myers Investor Pled Negligence

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday pushed back on an investor's insistence that his complaint over Bristol-Myers Squibb's $74 billion acquisition of Celgene satisfied pleading standards for securities lawsuits, echoing a trial court judge's concern that claims of disclosure requirement shortfalls sounded more in fraud than negligence.

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NJ Justices Revive Expert Testimony In Vehicular Death Case

By Elizabeth Daley

The New Jersey Supreme Court held Tuesday that a man accused of killing a 94-year-old woman in a crash may present expert testimony challenging whether her death was caused by his alleged recklessness, finding in a reversal that a pretrial evidentiary hearing wasn't needed.

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NJSBA To Partner With Lowenstein, McCarter, FBT Gibbons

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey State Bar Association announced Tuesday it expanded its sponsorship program for its 2026-2027 slate of events to include McCarter & English LLP and FBT Gibbons in addition to Lowenstein Sandler LLP, its sponsorship partner last year.

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DOE Accused Of Stretching Emergency Power For Pa. Plant

By Elaine Briseño

A group of consumer and environmental advocates has told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Department of Energy illegally substituted long-term electricity planning reserved for states with its own emergency authority to keep open a Pennsylvania power plant.

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House Dem Probes Retailers' Use Of Surveillance Pricing

By Allison Grande

The top Democrat on an influential U.S. House committee has begun to scrutinize corporate "surveillance pricing" practices, pushing Target, Walmart, Costco, Family Dollar, Whole Foods and 20 others Tuesday to explain whether and how they're using consumers' personal data to set individualized prices for certain products and services.

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Mich. Judge Says Vape Co. Infringed 'Breeze' Trademarks

By Jonathan Capriel

A New Jersey hookah and vape company infringed a trademark when it sold products under the "Breeze" name, a Michigan federal judge ruled, granting a win to a manufacturer after saying "undisputed evidence shows" the defendant did not own the marks.

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3rd Circ. Says Financial Services Rule Thwarts Privacy Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit declined to reinstate class claims made by a group of John Hancock customers from Illinois accusing Amazon Web Services Inc. and Pindrop Security Inc. of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, ruling Tuesday that exemptions under Illinois and federal law applied.

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Del Monte Defends Ch. 11 Plan Against Lenders' Objection

By Ben Zigterman

Del Monte Foods defended its Chapter 11 liquidation plan at a confirmation hearing Tuesday in New Jersey, arguing that, despite what a group of lenders has said, the debtor ran a transparent bankruptcy process that resulted in three separate sales.

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Where The Preemption Fight Over Prediction Markets Stands

While the Third Circuit's recent ruling in Kalshi v. Flaherty remains a significant win for the federal government in its quest to regulate prediction markets, the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits appear more skeptical, indicating that this fight is likely headed for the Supreme Court, says Johnny ElHachem at Holland & Knight.

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4 Emerging Approaches To AI Protective Order Language

Over the last year, at least five federal district courts have issued or analyzed specific protective order provisions restricting the use of generative artificial intelligence platforms with protected materials, establishing that proactive AI-specific provisions are now standard practice and demonstrating that no single model works for every case, says Joel Bush at Kilpatrick.

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Murdaugh Murder Conviction Overturned By SC High Court

By Parker Quinlan

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a double murder conviction and ordered a new trial for disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, finding the jury in his first trial was biased by a clerk of court who allegedly sought a guilty verdict in a ploy to juice sales of her book about the trial.

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Texas Atty Must Pay $5M For Groping Opposing Counsel

By Lynn LaRowe

A Texas state appellate court on Wednesday refused to disturb a $5 million jury verdict against a San Antonio lawyer for grabbing the buttocks of opposing counsel at the courthouse where they were arguing a family law proceeding in 2019.

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DOJ Fraud Division Set To Shake Up White-Collar Enforcement

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump's administration created the U.S. Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division with a narrow focus on combating government program fraud, but a move to retain federal prosecutors focused on other types of fraud could signal a wider scope with potential ripple effects across white-collar enforcement.

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Arbitrators See Global Stakes In Trump BigLaw EO Fight

By Caroline Simson

Ahead of a D.C. Circuit hearing on Thursday in the Trump administration's effort to revive executive orders imposed against four BigLaw firms, an official at the College of Commercial Arbitrators told Law360 this week there are several things arbitrators are going to be watching for.

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Apple Targets Hagens Berman 'Gamesmanship' In ICloud Suit

By Bryan Koenig

Apple has lashed out at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for trying to withdraw a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case in California federal court without discovery into any directions she received to preserve now-deleted emails, raising concerns that the withdrawal is meant to "paper over lost evidence."

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Michigan Federal Judge Gets Probation For Drunken Driving

By Susan Smiley

Michigan federal Judge Thomas L. Ludington was sentenced by a state judge Wednesday to six months probation and fined $1,175 in after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge last month in Emmet County.

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6th Circ. Says Kentucky Judicial Hopefuls May Tout Ideology

By Emily Sawicki

Kentucky judicial hopefuls are cleared to discuss their political leanings on the campaign trail, according to a precedential ruling by the Sixth Circuit, which permanently enjoined the state's Judicial Conduct Commission from pursuing an enforcement action against two candidates who described themselves as "conservatives" and "Republicans" amid the 2022 election season.

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CORRECTED: Senate Advances 13 US Attorneys In En Bloc Vote

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 46-45, along party lines, to advance the nomination of 13 U.S. attorneys on Monday as part of a larger nominations package. Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the status of the nominees in the Senate.

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